We got health advice and learnt about postnatal care.

Women will be able to specify their individual requirements in the first national guidance issued on postnatal care.

Heads of midwifery also routinely report a need to take midwives away from postnatal care to staff the labour wards.

There have been few improvements in postnatal care, with worryingly fewer women saying they receive the information or explanations they need.

I went to a remote village and met pregnant women and mothers carrying their newborns for miles to try to get basic antenatal and postnatal care.